Innovation Library

What we create here has a ripple effect on the world. From the fingerprint sensor technology seen on a smart phone near you to 3D printing and everything in between, the spirit of ingenuity is alive and well in Brevard County. Spark your innovative thinking and see what other entrepreneurs are doing here and around the world.

Moon Express is gunning for the $20 million Google Lunar XPrize. We went down to Florida to watch a test of the team’s lunar lander and to get an early look at its historic new facility. by Tim Stevens with CNET Magazine Google Lunar XPrize: …

by Annie Pilon with Small Business Trends Working remotely doesn’t have to mean being cooped up in your house or apartment. Now there are spaces where remote workers and tech startups can get office space or just share a communal work area with others just like…

By Tyler Hayes from Fast Company These things are ripe for an overhaul in the new year. One day I woke up and realized it had been years since I’d thought about my old Dell Axim X30 personal digital assistant (PDA), let alone touched one….

Australian researchers create ‘solar ink’ that can be printed on a material and used to charge smartphones and laptops by Oliver Milman with TheGuardian Renewable energy generation that allows flexible solar power cells to be printed off and attached to places such as windows and…

Press Release from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labatory A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory’s Modular Prosthetic…

Enerkem’s waste-to-energy technology is giving old clothes and sofas a new lease of life as a source of renewable energy. By Elisabeth Braw from TheGuardian In Edmonton, Canada, something as mundane as municipal waste treatment is attracting worldwide attention. The waste is the same as…

With new “inks” containing semiconductors, researchers have been able to print LEDs for the first time. By Katherine Bourzac on MIT Technology Review A 3-D printer can already make a prototype or spare part out of metal or polymer. Researchers at Princeton University have now…

By Corinne Jones on TheGuardian In September this year, 22-year-old Solveiga Pakštaité won the national leg of the James Dyson award for a tiny yet remarkable design that was only ever meant to be her final major project at university. The product? Bump Mark: a…

By Amanda McCormick , Entrepreneurs Expert View original article on entrepreneurs.about.com. Around here, we’re taking the business of starting a business very seriously. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get a kick out seeing the lighter side of startup life as well. Here are seven of the…

Article from Startup Professional Musings Written by Marty Zwilling When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or…